U.S. History II 1877-present: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the period from Reconstruction through the present day. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copy Right
• Contents
• Reader’s Guide
• Contributors
• Unit 1: Industrialization
• The Labor Question
• John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil
• Henry Ford’s Assembly Line
• The Bonsack Cigarette Rolling Machine
• The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
• Haymarket Riot
• Industrial Workers of the World
• Unit 1 Review
• Unit 2: Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific
• Ellis Island
• The Gentlemen’s Agreement
• The Literacy Test
• Unit 2 Review
• Unit 3: The Growth of Cities and Social Reform
• Louis Sullivan
• The Electric Streetcar
• Sewer Socialists
• Unit 3 Review
• Unit 4: American Empire
• Westward Expansion
• The Refrigerated Railway Car
• Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
• Wounded Knee
• Unit 4 Review
• Unit 5: Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives
• Granger Laws
• “Free Silver”
• Robert La Follette
• Unit 5 Review
• Unit 6: The United States and World War I
• The Sinking of the Lusitania
• Trench Warfare
• The Committee on Public Information
• Unit 6 Review
• Unit 7: The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward
• The Volstead Act
• The Florida Land Boom
• Charles Lindbergh
• Unit 7 Review
• Unit 8: The Great Depression
• Bonus March
• Breadlines
• The Dust Bowl
• Unit 8 Review
• Unit 9: The New Deal
• The Court-packing Plan
• Emergency Banking Relief Act
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
• Unit 9 Review
• Unit 10: The United States and World War II
• The Manhattan Project
• Henry J. Kaiser
• The Battle of the Bulge
• Unit 10 Review
• Unit 11: The United States and the Cold War
• The “Iron Curtain”
• The “Kitchen” Debate
• The Berlin Wall
• Unit 11 Review
• Unit 12: Civil Rights in the United States
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• The Myers Family of Levittown, Pennsylvania
• Voting Rights Act
• Unit 12 Review
• Unit 13: The Counterculture
• The Vietnam War
• Timothy Leary
• Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
• Woodstock
• Unit 13 Review
• Unit 14: Conservatism and Reaganism
• The John Birch Society
• Anita Bryant
• The Moral Majority
• Unit 14 Review
• Unit 15: Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the Age of Terror